[X-Servers] Xserve & RAID...

[Dave Walker]

Hi Matthew

The short answer is yes and no - you can do RAID 1 without the card,  
and with built in software, but it is a bit slow
RAID 5 you will need the hardware card - (recommended - I use it and  
it is very quick). SoftRAID would work OK for a set of external  
drives, but I don't think you can use it as a bootable drive, hence  
no use for Xserve on its own

Hope this helps



Dave

On 4 Nov 2005, at 07:50, Matthew Barr wrote:

> We're looking into getting our first Xserve, and I want to make  
> sure to have RAID 1 or 5  for the drives, but wasn't sure if the  
> normal Xserve can be configured in OS X Server to use the  the  
> drive bays as RAID 1 or 5 without the hardware RAID card.
>
> Any one know?  Oddly enough, we've never had OS X Server  around,  
> just a lot of clients, and linux servers... I'm looking forward to  
> having one, but without it here and now.. it's tough to know.
>
> Matthew
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